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In a recent talk at the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Charles King offered a bottom-up view of the birth of modern Istanbul, a city where people displaced by tectonic change remade themselves anew in the decades following World War I. Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Putin regime is fighting for its survival, using the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine to boost its popularity and retain the elite’s monopoly on political and economic affairs, said a panel of Russian scholars and journalists at the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.Monday, March 16, 2015

"By supplying weapons to the rebel militias, with their strange mix of intelligence agents, local thugs and trigger-happy Russian volunteers, Putin made himself a hostage to their brutish blundering," says UCLA political scientist Dan Treisman in a CNN editorial.Tuesday, July 22, 2014